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The Fishing Guild key item Serpent Rumors is required to start this quest.

Talk to Irmilant to start the quest. She tells you to obtain two Ex bait items, a Drill Calamary and a Dwarf Pugil, both of which can be found by turning in fish to Zaldon as part of the Inside The Belly quest. Alternatively, the baits can be obtained by winning the Pirate's Chart fight.

Fish up a Gugrusaurus using the Drill Calamary and trade it in for a Saber Shoot. Fish up a Lik using the Dwarf Pugil and trade it in for an Opal Silk. Trade the Saber Shoot and Opal Silk to Irmilant. Wait one day and talk to Irmilant again to receive your Ebisu Fishing Rod.

The onlt thing that has changed.... or that people found out anyway... was that you don't necessarily need the special rare/ex baits needed to catch th main fish. Some people spent forever and a day trying to first get the rare/ex baits and THEN going after the main fish for the rod parts. But I belive standard meatballs are able to catch one of these fish and another readily available bait will catch the other.

Of course, you won't ever catch these fish at all until you've opened the quest. (Level 78 needed plus the Key item "Serpent Rumours")

I have heard reports of someone completing this quest just nine hours after getting it by using the normal baits available. How true that is I really don't know. But somebody else took a full year of fishing doing it the rare/ex bait way.

Okay just started this quest, so this is a work in progress post: Requirements: Serpent Rumors Key item (95,000 GP at Fishing Guild, lvl 78+ fishing) Convo with Irmilant: Irm: Things of substance will inevitably be destroyed. There comes a time when even the most resilient spirit will be broken... Irm: Hmmm... So, you have the serpent rumors. Irm: There is more to the rumor than you know. The branch and the thread that those monstrosities have swallowed are the base materials for a legendary fishing rod. Irm: Should you manage to obtain those materials, bring them here to me. I am the only one left alive who can craft the rod or legend.